COTE St. LUC, Que -- Rocky Hroch of Temecula, Calif., tossed a no-hitter as McGill skunked the Carleton Ravens 11-0 to split a playoff doubleheader and even their best-of-three league championship series at 1-1 in a Canadian Collegiate Baseball Association Northern Division game shortened to five innings by the mercy rule, Saturday, at Gary Carter Field.

McGill, which lost the opener 7-3, can advance to the CCBA national championship in Ottawa with a victory over Carleton on Sunday (Oct. 14) at 1 p.m.

It was the third no-hitter in McGill baseball history, and the second for Hroch, a six-foot, 175-pound right-hander, who pitched his previous gem in a 13-1 victory over the Universite de Montreal, a five-inning affair on Sept. 23, 2016.

McGill's other no-hitter took place on Oct. 23, 2006 when sophomore Michael Tomasetta pitched a rain-shortened six-inning gem as McGill hammered Dalhousie 8-0 to capture the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association championship in Nepean, Ont.

Hroch,allowed no runs, struck out two and walked four. The 23-year-old international management senior threw 77 pitches -- 42 of them for strikes -- and registered six ground ball outs in addition to only one fly ball. He faced 21 batters and threw 11 first-pitch strikes.